A96226:127
The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now
The humble advice of the Assembly of Divines, now by authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster, concerning a confession of faith, presented by them lately to both houses of Parliament. A certain number of copies are ordered to be printed only for the use of the members of both houses and of the Assembly of Divines, to the end that they may advise thereupon.
London: printed for Company of Stationers, 1646
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
III. Beside this Law, commonly called Moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a Church under age, Ceremonial Laws containing several typical Ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; and partly, holding forth divers instructions of moral duties. All ⟨p. 31⟩which Ceremonial Laws are now abrogated, under the new Testament.
III. Beside this Law, commonly called Moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a Church under age, Ceremoniall Laws containing severall typical Ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; and partly, holding forth divers instructions of moral duties. All ⟨p. 31⟩which Ceremonial Laws are now abrogated, under the new Testament.
IV. To them also, as a Body Politic, he gave sundry Judicial Laws, which expired together with the State of that People; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require.
IV. To them also, as a Body Politique, he gave sundry Judicial Laws, which expired together with the State of that People; not obliging any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require.
V. The Moral Law doth for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof; and that, not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it: Neither doth Christ, in the Gospel, any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation.